custom keyboard layout

I would really appreciate if someone could help me out in this problem. I want to change one of bazzite's keyboard layouts (I need some special characters that aren't available together on any existing layout). my idea is to have the "symbols" file to be somewhere in the home directory and have xkb load it from there, but I have trouble finding what can do that. does anyone know how I can do that? I have tried input-remapper and it didn't work
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dnkmmr
dnkmmr8mo ago
does input-remapper give any errors?
mitori
mitori8mo ago
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dnkmmr
dnkmmr8mo ago
maybe it doesn't reconize the non standard u since it isn't found on keyboards
mitori
mitori8mo ago
then it doesn't work for my usecase =/ I mean, unless there are keycodes that I can use, but I'm focused on the xkb solution for now
dnkmmr
dnkmmr8mo ago
you can hold a letter on the steam keyboard if you are on the deck version. if on desktop, use kcharacter select if on kde or chqracters if on gnome
mitori
mitori8mo ago
that's not that much of a solution for writing texts using the characters I need